Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 61 69
Rank change year-on-year -42 +8 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,627 1,939 3,623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 4.35% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 4.70% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,187 975 2,707
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +15.70% -10.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -36 1,476 £75,000 - 647
UK excluding London -85 790 £65,000 -7.14% 472
Work from Home -30 717 £67,500 -6.24% 397
London -7 710 £85,000 +0.29% 276
North of England -49 329 £69,310 -4.40% 159
South East -28 205 £67,500 -3.57% 122
North West -51 177 £75,000 +3.45% 104
Yorkshire -31 82 £65,000 -11.79% 33
Midlands -74 82 £67,500 - 48
South West -72 77 £52,500 -23.39% 51
North East +11 70 £65,000 -6.50% 23
West Midlands -47 58 £78,750 +12.50% 25
East of England -19 43 £60,100 +0.17% 23
Scotland -69 28 £60,000 -23.87% 26
Wales -34 23 £67,500 +29.81% 19
East Midlands -69 23 £65,000 -1.89% 23
Northern Ireland -27 7 £62,500 +25.00% 29
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 1

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 21 (1.29%) Confluence
3 14 (0.86%) Apache
4 13 (0.80%) CMS
5 12 (0.74%) IIS
6 10 (0.61%) JBoss
7 8 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.37%) WordPress
10 5 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.31%) Drupal
11 4 (0.25%) Camunda
11 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.18%) nginx
13 2 (0.12%) Liferay
13 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.37%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 862 (52.98%) AWS
2 695 (42.72%) Azure
3 302 (18.56%) GCP
4 245 (15.06%) Serverless
5 164 (10.08%) SaaS
6 163 (10.02%) GitHub
7 138 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
8 121 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (6.27%) Amazon S3
10 95 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
11 84 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
12 70 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 66 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
14 64 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (3.50%) GitHub Copilot
16 55 (3.38%) Azure AKS
17 51 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
18 46 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 43 (2.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 63 (3.87%) Broadband
2 23 (1.41%) Network Security
3 11 (0.68%) DMARC
3 11 (0.68%) DNS
3 11 (0.68%) MQTT
4 9 (0.55%) Internet
5 8 (0.49%) VPN
6 7 (0.43%) AMQP
6 7 (0.43%) DHCP
6 7 (0.43%) Firewall
6 7 (0.43%) HTTP
7 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.31%) LTE
8 5 (0.31%) RFID
9 3 (0.18%) Modbus
10 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.12%) SNMP
10 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (13.89%) MongoDB
2 196 (12.05%) NoSQL
3 181 (11.12%) PostgreSQL
4 101 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
5 98 (6.02%) MySQL
6 93 (5.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 80 (4.92%) Relational Database
8 76 (4.67%) SQL Server
9 48 (2.95%) Redis
10 46 (2.83%) DynamoDB
11 44 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.84%) Big Data
13 26 (1.60%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.48%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.80%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.49%) Db2
17 7 (0.43%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
17 7 (0.43%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.37%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 194 (11.92%) Git
2 158 (9.71%) GitLab
3 129 (7.93%) Jenkins
4 54 (3.32%) TeamCity
5 48 (2.95%) JIRA
5 48 (2.95%) JUnit
6 38 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 32 (1.97%) Mockito
8 31 (1.91%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.78%) CircleCI
9 29 (1.78%) Claude Code
10 28 (1.72%) Maven
11 18 (1.11%) Selenium
12 17 (1.04%) Vite
13 16 (0.98%) JMeter
14 15 (0.92%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.80%) Postman
16 12 (0.74%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
17 9 (0.55%) Spock
General
1 438 (26.92%) Finance
2 296 (18.19%) Social Skills
3 161 (9.90%) Banking
4 147 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (5.65%) Retail
7 86 (5.29%) Law
8 84 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (3.20%) Financial Institution
10 45 (2.77%) Back Office
11 29 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.48%) Marketing
13 17 (1.04%) Advertising
13 17 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.04%) Billing
14 13 (0.80%) Legal
15 11 (0.68%) Games
16 10 (0.61%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 571 (35.10%) Developer
2 400 (24.59%) Senior
3 332 (20.41%) Software Engineer
4 231 (14.20%) Architect
5 227 (13.95%) Lead
6 146 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 135 (8.30%) .NET Developer
8 133 (8.17%) Java Developer
9 122 (7.50%) Java Engineer
10 120 (7.38%) Senior Developer
11 115 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
12 88 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
13 78 (4.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 71 (4.36%) Principal Engineer
15 66 (4.06%) Software Developer
16 60 (3.69%) Lead Developer
17 55 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
18 52 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
19 49 (3.01%) Java Software Engineer
20 43 (2.64%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (23.97%) .NET
2 361 (22.19%) React
3 324 (19.91%) Node.js
4 277 (17.03%) Spring
5 263 (16.16%) RESTful
6 253 (15.55%) Spring Boot
7 221 (13.58%) REST
8 198 (12.17%) Kafka
9 161 (9.90%) AngularJS
10 150 (9.22%) .NET Core
11 149 (9.16%) ASP.NET
12 142 (8.73%) Vue
13 118 (7.25%) ASP.NET Core
14 84 (5.16%) HTML
15 82 (5.04%) gRPC
16 77 (4.73%) CSS
17 76 (4.67%) .NET Framework
18 70 (4.30%) ASP.NET Web API
19 66 (4.06%) RabbitMQ
20 64 (3.93%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 486 (29.87%) Cloud Native
2 279 (17.15%) Distributed Systems
3 111 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
5 70 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.83%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.77%) Over-the-Top Content
9 32 (1.97%) Algorithms
10 30 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 29 (1.78%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.48%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
14 23 (1.41%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.35%) PKI
16 21 (1.29%) e-Learning
16 21 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 98 (6.02%) Linux
2 40 (2.46%) Windows
3 20 (1.23%) Unix
4 8 (0.49%) CentOS
4 8 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.37%) Debian
5 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (50.58%) CI/CD
2 694 (42.66%) Agile
3 593 (36.45%) DevOps
4 592 (36.39%) Software Engineering
5 443 (27.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 397 (24.40%) Containerisation
7 370 (22.74%) Mentoring
8 340 (20.90%) Test Automation
9 326 (20.04%) Event-Driven
10 317 (19.48%) AI
11 309 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 307 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
13 283 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
14 210 (12.91%) Scrum
15 202 (12.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 200 (12.29%) Technical Leadership
17 190 (11.68%) TDD
18 188 (11.56%) Coaching
19 182 (11.19%) Clean Code
20 174 (10.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 542 (33.31%) Java
2 410 (25.20%) Python
3 387 (23.79%) SQL
4 371 (22.80%) C#
5 360 (22.13%) JavaScript
6 283 (17.39%) TypeScript
7 117 (7.19%) Go
8 50 (3.07%) Scala
9 46 (2.83%) PHP
10 42 (2.58%) C++
11 41 (2.52%) Bash
12 36 (2.21%) Ruby
13 27 (1.66%) C
14 23 (1.41%) Rust
15 22 (1.35%) PowerShell
16 21 (1.29%) Bicep
17 19 (1.17%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.98%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.80%) Shell Script
20 11 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 193 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 161 (9.90%) Degree
3 131 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.63%) AWS Certification
6 31 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 30 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.66%) CISSP
9 24 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 16 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.86%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.74%) CISM
14 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.49%) PhD
16 7 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.43%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
18 5 (0.31%) ISACA
18 5 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (6.95%) QA
2 56 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.34%) GDPR
4 35 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.48%) NIST
7 22 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 19 (1.17%) WCAG
9 16 (0.98%) NCSC
10 15 (0.92%) GRC
11 11 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.18%) IFRS
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.18%) SEPA
15 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.061%) Data Quality
System Software
1 470 (28.89%) Docker
2 18 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.25%) Firmware
4 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 500 (30.73%) Kubernetes
2 307 (18.87%) Terraform
3 88 (5.41%) Ansible
4 87 (5.35%) Grafana
5 50 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.35%) Argo
6 22 (1.35%) Kibana
7 14 (0.86%) Puppet
8 13 (0.80%) Cilium
8 13 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.43%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.25%) Packer
10 4 (0.25%) Podman
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) MIIS
11 2 (0.12%) Nagios
11 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.12%) Rancher
Vendors
1 213 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.30%) Google
3 51 (3.13%) Oracle
4 45 (2.77%) Typelevel
5 29 (1.78%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.48%) Splunk
7 22 (1.35%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.86%) IBM
9 14 (0.86%) Red Hat
10 12 (0.74%) Databricks
10 12 (0.74%) SendGrid
11 10 (0.61%) Adobe
12 9 (0.55%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.55%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.55%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.49%) Cisco
13 8 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.49%) SAP
14 7 (0.43%) HubSpot